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the cities in the late 1970s and early 1908s. he lost in the primary to david dinkins. he often said joke about that's, the people threw me out, and now the people must be punished. ah, mayor koch. god bless him. he was 88 years old. ben smith, your favored ed koch memory/story? >> i wrote his obituary. i interviewed him for his obituary in 2002. >> wow. >> he had already by then written his epitath that appears on his tomb stone, which has already been made. i quoted it in the story, and there it is. i love that he recorded a video for the "new york times" that begins i'm gone now. he exits talking. he just never lost his step. he just stayed. >> he never did. iran. >> i would say not to speak ill of the dead and with all respect to his legacy -- >> ah oh. >> i think -- no, it has to be recognized that he helped stoke a lot of racial tensions and splits between african-americans and jews which were regrettable and which luckily some of the bridges have been built since then. >> he did sort of own up to some of them in his later
the cities in the late 1970s and early 1908s. he lost in the primary to david dinkins. he often said joke about that's, the people threw me out, and now the people must be punished. ah, mayor koch. god bless him. he was 88 years old. ben smith, your favored ed koch memory/story? >> i wrote his obituary. i interviewed him for his obituary in 2002. >> wow. >> he had already by then written his epitath that appears on his tomb stone, which has already been made. i quoted it in...
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howard, as a deputy mayor of new york city, the question of keeping the city safe is something you deal with on a daily basis. this is a really interesting and brave new arena that we have sort of yet to really get our minds and arms around in terms of national security. >> well, all of our essential infrastructure in the city, from water, to street lights, to sewage, to elevators, everything you can think of runs on computers somewhere. somewhere there is a computer running it, and if there was a government or some other non-governmental entity that had the ability to hack into some of those systems to, you know, flood our streets, to shut off the electric grid, there would be chaos, and so this is an enormously serious problem. it's not just about hacking a website and spoofing the website. this is about how we go about our daily lives, and i hope, i don't know, i hope that the federal government is taking this as seriously as they need to, because, and you hear this analogy a lot, compared to pearl harbor, you could be looking at the next pearl harbor. one day you could wake up and t
howard, as a deputy mayor of new york city, the question of keeping the city safe is something you deal with on a daily basis. this is a really interesting and brave new arena that we have sort of yet to really get our minds and arms around in terms of national security. >> well, all of our essential infrastructure in the city, from water, to street lights, to sewage, to elevators, everything you can think of runs on computers somewhere. somewhere there is a computer running it, and if...
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you think about all this city and all of you have been through in the last few years. think about folks like jeff growl. now, jeff was in the trucking industry for over a decade. two years ago, he got laid off. lost his job as a diesel mechanic. that's a tough thing to go through even though jeff's a pretty tough guy. but he bounced back. he decided it was time for him to change careers. he decided it was time to get some new skills. he went to a.b. tech. took a class in automated machining, a few months ago, jeff got his diploma, he graduated on a wednesday. interviewed at this plant on thursday. by friday, he was working as a machine operator. where's jeff? there he is right here. now, obviously, jeff's pretty good at interviews because, you know, he just got hired like that. i hope he can give me some advice. but here's the thing. the reason jeff did all of that, obviously, a lot of it was to support himself and his family. but it wasn't just to punch a clock at a new plant or pick up a paycheck from a new company. it was to make sure that he could have a better fut
you think about all this city and all of you have been through in the last few years. think about folks like jeff growl. now, jeff was in the trucking industry for over a decade. two years ago, he got laid off. lost his job as a diesel mechanic. that's a tough thing to go through even though jeff's a pretty tough guy. but he bounced back. he decided it was time for him to change careers. he decided it was time to get some new skills. he went to a.b. tech. took a class in automated machining, a...
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it's important to remember that the voting rights act has provisions for jurisdictions to get out if they can demonstrate that they should not be in. but, if any city should stay in, these people are in this court case because they excluded minority voters. it's actually a weird case to be coming forward to talk about getting rid of section v. >> representative, if you can hang with us, we have to take a short break. we are going to talk about congressional high jinx, speaker john boehner is looking to make a legislative splash. is overhauling the tax code the comeback? we'll ask congressman about his ideas when we come back. ♪ alright, let's go. ♪ shimmy, shimmy chocolate. ♪ shimmy, shimmy chocolate. ♪ we, we chocolate cross over. ♪ yeah, we chocolate cross over. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing fiber one 80 calorie chocolate cereal. ♪ chocolate. ♪ pop goes the world pop in a whole new kind of clean with tide pods. a powerful 3-in-1 detergent that cleans, brightens and fights stains. pop in. stand out. that cleans, brightens and fights stains. looking for a litter wi
it's important to remember that the voting rights act has provisions for jurisdictions to get out if they can demonstrate that they should not be in. but, if any city should stay in, these people are in this court case because they excluded minority voters. it's actually a weird case to be coming forward to talk about getting rid of section v. >> representative, if you can hang with us, we have to take a short break. we are going to talk about congressional high jinx, speaker john boehner...
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new york city, we will start to see some lighter showers. not until later in the day. highs in the northeast today in the mid to upper 40s. [ female announcer ] it balances you... it fills you with energy... and it gives you what you are looking for to live a more natural life. in a convenient two bar pack. this is nature valley. nature at its most delicious. this is nature valley. some people will do anything to help eliminate litter box odor. ♪ discover tidy cats pure nature. clumping litter with natural cedar, pine, and corn. rr. >> right now boehner unplugged. there's still no help for a sequester deal. >> we have moved in the house twice. we should not have to move a third bill before the senate gets off their ass and begins to do something. >> the republican leadership says let the senate begin. i remind them that the constitution says the appropriations in revenue bills must begin in the house.
new york city, we will start to see some lighter showers. not until later in the day. highs in the northeast today in the mid to upper 40s. [ female announcer ] it balances you... it fills you with energy... and it gives you what you are looking for to live a more natural life. in a convenient two bar pack. this is nature valley. nature at its most delicious. this is nature valley. some people will do anything to help eliminate litter box odor. ♪ discover tidy cats pure nature. clumping...
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new york city, we will start to see some lighter showers. not until later in the day. highs in the northeast today in the mid to upper 40s. [ female announcer ] it balances you... it fills you with energy... and it gives you what you are looking for to live a more natural life. in a convenient two bar pack. this is nature valley. nature at its most delicious. this is nature valley. some people will do anything to help eliminate litter box odor. ♪ discover tidy cats pure nature. clumping litter with natural cedar, pine, and corn. r
new york city, we will start to see some lighter showers. not until later in the day. highs in the northeast today in the mid to upper 40s. [ female announcer ] it balances you... it fills you with energy... and it gives you what you are looking for to live a more natural life. in a convenient two bar pack. this is nature valley. nature at its most delicious. this is nature valley. some people will do anything to help eliminate litter box odor. ♪ discover tidy cats pure nature. clumping...
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want the top spot for the city of boston. alex, back to you. >> the weather channel's eric fisher. thank you. stay warm. howard wolfson, deputy mayor of new york, you have assured me during the break that you got this one. >> we are prepared. the mayor is prepared. everybody in city government is prepared. the world's greatest snow-fighting force is ready and deployed. we don't expect to get as much snow as they are expecting in boston. it's going to begin heavily around 5:00 tonight and go through overnight. we've got 250,000 tons of salt ready to be deployed. >> that's a lot of salt. >> it's a lot of salt. we've got 2,200 trucks that are going to be out on the streets deploying that salt. making sure that your commute home will be relatively smooth. it's going to be a lot of snow, and people will have to deal with that when it comes and not everything will be perfect, but we are absolutely ready and prepared and we will do our typical great job. >> if the deputy mayor thing doesn't work out, may i suggest meteorologist? >>
want the top spot for the city of boston. alex, back to you. >> the weather channel's eric fisher. thank you. stay warm. howard wolfson, deputy mayor of new york, you have assured me during the break that you got this one. >> we are prepared. the mayor is prepared. everybody in city government is prepared. the world's greatest snow-fighting force is ready and deployed. we don't expect to get as much snow as they are expecting in boston. it's going to begin heavily around 5:00...
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they have camera that is have fantastic ability to survey cities. when all that starts coming home and you start getting into this tom cruise "minority report" sort of micro-drones outside your house sur veiling you, that's the next question. i think most americans they just don't understand what it is. they support it because it keeps them sane. they don't know the technicalities. >> it's two conversations we're really having. one is the operational features of drones. the other is the legal features of the drone program. i think let's put aside the legal features question right now. operationally drones do serve a purpose. we could theoretically be putting boots on the ground in yellen and pakistan and are all complication with that, and never in the history of warfare have there ever been things without collateral damage. what this does essentially is it tries as best it can to limit the boots on the ground, and there is still classral damage, and that's awful, obviously, but in terms of warfare, operationally, drones do have a defensible purpose
they have camera that is have fantastic ability to survey cities. when all that starts coming home and you start getting into this tom cruise "minority report" sort of micro-drones outside your house sur veiling you, that's the next question. i think most americans they just don't understand what it is. they support it because it keeps them sane. they don't know the technicalities. >> it's two conversations we're really having. one is the operational features of drones. the...
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it doesn't matter if he goes to every city in the country and spends his entire state of the union talking about spending on infrastructure and things of that nature, but the republican-led house is not going to go along with that. this is really an act in futility. >> dwoent know how. to be honest, we don't know how much of the speech is going to push for infrastructure spending. god forbid we have better infrastructure spending. the economic piece is difficult for the president given the recovery has been really slow. we have the numbers from january. long-term unemployment has held steady. that is a lot of people who have been out of work for six months or more, and it is at its lowest rate since june 2009. that's a long-term number. the short-term and sort of standard unemployment numbers haven't budged considerably, and so the president does -- is in a tricky position in terms of highlighting an economic plan that legislatively may go nowhere, and if you talk about what he has done so far, there's a sense of perhaps malaise among the american public. >> in many weighs it shouldn't be
it doesn't matter if he goes to every city in the country and spends his entire state of the union talking about spending on infrastructure and things of that nature, but the republican-led house is not going to go along with that. this is really an act in futility. >> dwoent know how. to be honest, we don't know how much of the speech is going to push for infrastructure spending. god forbid we have better infrastructure spending. the economic piece is difficult for the president given...
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some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. >> they're americans in their hearts, in their mipdz, in every single way but one, on paper. >> last year president obama announced an executive action allowing certain children of undocumented workers, or dreamers, to remain in the country without fear of deportation. he took this action after the dream act failed in congress due to a gop-led senate filibuster. according to the pew research center, hispanic center, 1.7 million of the approximately $11 million undocumented people in the u.s. currently qualify as dreamers. >> according it a recent economic constituted kwli passing the dream act would add $329 billion to the u.s. economy and create 1.4 million new jobs by 2030. the dream is now a campaign dedicated to advancing the principles behind the dream act launched by lore even powell jobs, widow of steve jobs. the website the dream is now.org features the stories of several dreamers. one is terrence park. >> just yesterday terrence was accepted into the masters
some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. >> they're americans in their hearts, in their mipdz, in every single way but one, on paper. >> last year president obama announced an executive action allowing certain children of undocumented workers, or dreamers, to remain in the country without fear of deportation. he took this action after the dream act failed in congress due to a gop-led senate filibuster. according...